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#16 2013-06-20 09:52:33

Gallex

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Registered: 2006-10-08

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Re: custom field as an url

did it, but it gives me response of an error_default page!??

sidenote: same issue using smd_random_banner plugin – can’t insert urls into ‘alternate text’ field of images.

Last edited by Gallex (2013-06-20 10:05:58)

#17 2013-06-20 10:38:58

wet

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Re: custom field as an url

After a bit of play with Gallex’ site this is what I’ve found:

Whenever something resembling an URL is part of the posted data, Textpattern replies with the error_404 page. Ok, that’s a ‘Not found’ error – but why is a page missing?

Most certainly, this is caused by Apache experiencing a root error like ’403 Forbidden’. This error in turn is probably thrown by an overly eager security module your hosting provider has set up to inhibit “malicious” post data like these URLs.

Apache tries to find a proper error document for this root error, and fails to find one. Thus, Apache throws a subsequent 404 error which Textpattern gracefully handles by sending you its “404 Not Found” error page.

Meanwhile the form submission code on the Write tab does not expect to encounter a “404 Not Found” error page, bails out and displays the original “Sorry, the form could not be submitted” message box.

Conclusion:

Your hosting provider applies too strong security measures. There’s nothing Textpattern can do to weaken or disable these security measures.

Quoting Jukka:

Check with your hosting provider. Seems like your standard packet filtering issue.

#18 2013-06-20 13:42:49

milosevic

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From: Madrid, Spain

Registered: 2005-09-19

Posts: 390

Re: custom field as an url

wet dijo:

There’s nothing Textpattern can do to weaken or disable these security measures.

I have the same issue, could any SQL guru please tell me how to code the instruction to remove the “http://” form my custom field “custom_8” via phpmyadmin?

I have no idea of SQL and I’m planning to change my site: now I store complete URL and remove “http://” on the anchor text of links on the front, but since now I will do the opposite: store URLs without “http://” and and it to the anchors href via form, but I don’t know how to clean up to 3000 URLs allready stored in my custom field!

Thanks a lot.

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#19 2013-06-20 13:49:15

colak

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Re: custom field as an url

Hi Jorge,

It’s not as automatic and there will be a lot of donkey work but adi_matrix helped me tremendously when I was updating my site.

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#20 2013-06-20 13:53:36

etc

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Re: custom field as an url

I am not a SQL guru, but that shouldn’t be difficult (CAUTION: untested!):

UPDATE `textpattern` SET `custom_1` = REPLACE( `custom_1`, 'http://', '' );

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#21 2013-06-21 11:38:30

milosevic

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From: Madrid, Spain

Registered: 2005-09-19

Posts: 390

Re: custom field as an url

etc dijo:

I am not a SQL guru, but that shouldn’t be difficult (CAUTION: untested!):

UPDATE `textpattern` SET `custom_1` = REPLACE( `custom_1`, 'http://', '' );

Now allready tested: it worked like a charm, thank you!

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